We’ve been thinking of adding another snake to our home lately. Belial, our corn snake, has been an awesome addition to our home, and the idea of getting a larger snake has been really appealing. I’ve sort of fallen in love with a beautiful 6′ long, 30lb boa. It is very sweet and gentle and seems to really like people.
I can see if we do get another snake, that it is only going to become easier and easier to get more. I never realized just how cool snakes were until we got Belial. I might even have to cave into requests from the princess to start breeding our own food supply.
See, the cascade effect is starting!!!
Now I’m off to research enclosure plans.
I have had a passion for martial arts for as long as I can remember and have participated for over 25 years, give or take. In 2006 I had surgery to repair an ankle, which had me out of it altogether for 2 years while I waited for surgery and then rehabbed. I have recently thought about getting back into it, albeit in a different discipline, but I am realizing that while the mind is willing and the body is currently able, I am not sure I want to put that kind of wear and tear on my body again. 25 years of bone and soft tissue injuries have not done me any favours.
I am struggling to reconcile my love for this sport with an ageing body that doesn’t heal like it used to and the eventuality of dealing with the long term issues further down the road. Arthritis is already nipping me harshly in the ankles and old injuries nag me constantly.
It is a sad realization to begin to know that you shouldn’t do some of the things you used to do; that your body doth protest.
It is likely time to find other passions… but it is hard to give up that part of myself. I am attached to it. Time to develop the buddhist aspect of my nature perhaps, and absolve myself of certain attachments. Gah.
